There’s a little alleyway in Kyoto where a restaurant hides with no signboards, no curtains, and yet somehow, everyone who visits never...

At Found in Translation , this September we celebrate food in translated literature. Meals in books are never just meals: they carry...

Literature, like food, is, in Terry Eagleton’s words, “endlessly interpretable,” and food, like literature, “looks like an object but is...

For much of literary history, translation has been the quiet art behind the louder world of authorship. It is an act of listening and re-speaking, of carrying meaning across the borders of language and culture. And while the names of male translators have often been preserved in marble and ink, women have been at work here, too — sometimes celebrated, more often erased.

Design by Wendy Found in Translation Bookshop is opening on August 15th, 2025 . We are an online bookshop for multilingual and...